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Newest JREF Post: Pseudoscience in China

Over the holidays I spent about two weeks in China visiting family. While I was there I decided to venture out into the city to find myself some traditional Chinese medicine and to see if the prevalence of pseudoscience was really as bad as I have always assumed.

If you head over to the JREF’s Swift Blog you can find a chronicle of what I discovered, along with many interesting pictures of the experience (who doesn’t want to see a jar of dried scorpions that you are supposed to turn into a broth and drink for your health?).

For your health

In the USA we take good health care for granted, so give yourself another perspective entirely and take a look at the state of medicine in China (or at least my take on it).

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1 thought on “Newest JREF Post: Pseudoscience in China”

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Of course if you go to the rural areas you will encounter that, but why not go to Beijing or Shanghai to a proper hospital? The surprise you will found a acupuncture section in it.
Well now moving to the first world, Korea you will find hospitals that offer combination of both and even the prestigious Severance Hospital in Seoul have a practice in acupunture. Well are they wrong?
This article confirms the prejudice against oriental cultural approach to medicine, with the hidden message ” west is best, east is lest”
In you Americans take good care of your health why you are full of fatties? While i can see a lot of slim people, in the US i had the chance to see fat people for free. Everytime that I see a fat white person I always knew is an American, not even in my mother country I have seen such about of obesity.
Yo Americans have no right to talk about good health you are full of junk food, antidepressants to solve your iincompetence and drinking cola and other poisons that make them fat.
What next? Look for an excuse of American obesity due to genetic factors and look for the magic pill.

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Kyle Hill is a science writer and communicator who specializes in finding the secret science in your favorite fandom. His work has appeared in Wired, The Boston Globe, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover Magazine, and more. He is a TV correspondent for Al Jazeera America's science and technology show TechKnow.